First off, I have an older rig that I’ve slowly been replacing hardware in.

What I currently have (not including heatsinks/fans) :

Intel i7 920 (first gen i7 with it’s motherboard)
16 GB Crucial Ballistix RAM
Corsair HX 850 Watt PSU
Sapphire Radeon HD 7870 graphics card (may or may not get another for Crossfire)


Unfortunately, I can’t get a 3rd or a 4th generation intel chip to fit my current mother board. Based on my budget, I’m looking at one of the two combinations below.

1. Intel i5-4670K Haswell processor with an Intel MSI z87-GD65 motherboard.
2. AMD FX-8350 Vishera processor with an ASUS Sabertooth 990 FX motherboard.

Both are priced nearly identical. As I pretty much only game on my pc or watch dvd’s, I don’t believe an i7 processor would be an appreciable upgrade over an i5 for the money spent. The MSI motherboard is PCI 3.0 ready to take full use of my GPU. The FX-8350 appears to have a higher clock speed than the i5-4670K. Both CPUs could be overclocked. I’m hoping the processor/motherboard will last a few years like my i7 920 has. The 920 works fine for FFXIV but games like Planetside 2 put a lot of stress on it.

Which of the two choices would be a better deal and why?